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Innovative technologies<br />
KEY TAKEAWAYS<br />
Policymakers need new solutions<br />
to harness innovation<br />
Industries can benefit from being<br />
disrupted by new technologies<br />
An internet cafe in Guilin, China<br />
Growth through<br />
innovation<br />
Policymakers can utilise the new industrial revolution<br />
to promote entrepreneurialism and new ecosystems,<br />
writes Angel Gurría<br />
Our global economy is beset by<br />
financial vulnerability, slowing<br />
productivity, environmental<br />
degradation and rising<br />
inequalities. Many countries<br />
have stagnating or declining populations<br />
and face diminishing returns from labour<br />
inputs and investment in physical capital.<br />
Policymakers need new solutions that<br />
harness opportunities through innovation.<br />
Boosting productivity<br />
Innovation takes many forms, such as<br />
new and better products and production<br />
processes, new marketing methods and<br />
changes in business practices and better<br />
workplace organisation. It underpinned<br />
about one-third of total growth in gross<br />
domestic product between 1995 and 2013<br />
by boosting productivity and it will be<br />
tomorrow's driving force behind economic<br />
growth and societal progress.<br />
100 <strong>G20</strong> China: The Hangzhou Summit • September 2016 G7<strong>G20</strong>.com